Gender Stereotypes In The Hunger Games Figurative Language

Thought 1: In the beginning of the novel “The Hunger Games”, the introduction of the characters and setting take place including the description of the world she lives in. A notable event in the book that relates to gender stereotypes is when the main character Katniss was hunting a deer in order to feed her family.

Commentary: This event shows significance to Katniss’s role in the book as she can be seen as father figure to her family—not to mention the sudden death of Katniss’s and Primrose’s actual father which really impacted Katniss’s family, causing her to take on the role of the father. She clearly breaks out of the negative female gender stereotype “Damsel in Distress”, due to instead of being completely helpless and dependent on others, she is the one that is carrying out the hard duties like the traditional male would in a text and displays independence from others. The view of her being a father figure to her family carries a positive connotation due to displaying the opposite of being helpless and frail.

Thought 2: As the events in the novel carry on, more and more is …show more content…
The only difference is that this is the first time in her life that she displays the heroic side of her while trying to save Rue. Relative to what was explained in Thought 1, this is also an event in the book she breaks out of the negative female gender stereotype “Damsel in Distress”, which instead of being completely helpless and dependent on a traditional male hero, Katniss is the character that is the hero, which really gets the message out that males are not the only people that can be heroes. Not to mention that she displays a cliché that traditional males often display: “Survival to the fittest.” Katniss carries a positive connotation in the book due to her action of being the hero and breaking out of negative female gender

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